Re: Chile: Researchers Battle Over Vet's Conclusions

From: Bill Stockstill <size14d@bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:14:06 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:43:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Chile: Researchers Battle Over Vet's Conclusions
>From: Scott Corrales <lornis1@earthlink.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:52:07 -0500
>Subject: Chile: Researchers Battle Over Vet's Conclusions
>The following is a communique recieved from the CHILE C.I.O.
>research group in regard to the conclusions reached by
>veterinarian Arturo Mann on the alleged "monito de monte"
>corpse. The communique was issued by Eric Martinez on October
>26, 2002 and quotes from a zoology broadcast on Chile's
>Megavision TV station. Sebastian Jimenez, a veterinarian and
>director of the Santiago de Chile Zoo, was the interviewee. It
>turns out that the creature has been given the name TOY (no
>reason given).
>===================================
>COMMUNIQUE FROM C.I.O CHILE
>Sebastian Jimenez: "No conclusions in this regard could be made
>beyond a reasonable doubt."
>What is more, he added: "Some are going around saying its a
>little mouse, a marsupial, monito, etc. "but that he could not
>identify it beyond being a mammal, and that it needs further
>research."
>In regard to the statements made by veterinarian Arturo Mann, it
>is 10% (sic) that he does not know what he is saying. Therfore,
>it cannot be final.
>Furhtermore, oither veterinarians do not agree on what the
>[creature] might be.
>The "EL MERCURIO" Newspaper dated October 25, 2002 says the
>following in an article on the subject: veterinarian Pedro
>Katan, of the University of Chile, could not determine the
>species it belonged to."
>In an interview for TVN (Television Nacional de Chile) on
>October 25, 2002 with Eric Martinez (Research Director for CIO
>CHILE) and Arturo Mann, Eric Martinez asked the following
>question off camera:
>"Arturo, if it was a marsupial, would it have to have a tail?"
>Arturo's reply: "Yes."
>Eric Martinez asked: "So what happened to TOY's tail?" [bold in
>the original--SC]
>Arturo's reply: "Well...um...maybe it fell off."
>It is worth noting that it isn't Arturo Mann who says "it's
>final", but the OVNIVISION news section.
>The question is: why such a heading? Isn't it better to wait for
>analyses, as OVNIVISION's own director said on the Megavision
>news broadcast, that "it was necessary to wait for the DNA exams
>before reaching a conclusion."
>The only analysis performed by Mr. Arturo Mann was a visual one,
>without a magnifying glass or any instrument that might have
>aided him [in reaching a] better diagnosis.
>How could he identify a given animal, if other veterinarians are
>unable to?
>[...]
>No consideration appears to have been given to the diverging
>opinions of other specialists, who also examined TOY...
>[...]
>Why was the opinion of the other specialists not published in
>this article, which is contrary to that of Arturo Mann?
>There are three specialists who examined TOY!!! [bold in the
>original--SC]
>Two of them have said they cannot identify it.
>One has identified it 90% and doesn't know what the remaining
>10% might be.
>But the reply given by Mr. Arturo Mann is precisely employed to
>define a case such as this one..... Why?
>Eric Martinez
>Director of Research
>C.I.O. Chile
>Ph: (cell) 09-857-72110
For those interested in what a monito de monte looks like:
http://www.cape1.net/chile/monito_del_monte.htm
How anyone could describe this little guy as humanoid is beyond
me. Is there a picture of this thing anywhere yet Scott? BTW, I
always enjoy your work, Scott.
Bill Stockstill